Binding: mottled calfskin. Spine, edges of boards and turn-ins tooled in gilt; title in gilt on spine label. Signature of H. Reveley on title

First ed. appeared probably in 1666 and comprised 81 plates. Plates 60 & 61 of the present ed., devoted to the Roman fresco known as the Aldobrandini Wedding, were etched by Bartoli in 1677 and added to the work. In 1690 a group of 31 plates was transferred to another de Rossi publication (Veteres arcus Augustorum), and replaced with 31 others in part by Bartoli. See Indice

Title and dedication included in numbering of plates. Single letterpress leaf bears bibliographical information by Domenco de' Rossi. Dedicatory leaf incorporates port. of Cardinal Flavio Chigi, to whom first ed. was dedicated, engraved by V. Guigou. Plate 30 signed with initials by Robert van Audenaerd, who was responsible for other plates as well. Thirty-one of the plates by Bartoli are copies in reverse of plates from François Perrier's Icones et segmenta (Rome, 1645). Perrier's monogram appears on plates 53 & 54. See Indice

Indice delle stampe de' Rossi

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